Social media’s busiest week
Never, it feels, has so much big news broken in the world of social media than in the last seven days.
The last week has seen Twitter taken offline for around 24 hours on and off, URL shortener Tr.im has officially died, and now FriendFeed have been bought up by social media giants, Facebook.
In a statement, Facebook told the world it would be taking over the sharing and discussion service, with their 12 employees joining the existing team at Facebook. No price has been disclosed.
But what does this mean for Twitter?
At this early stage, nothing is clear. FriendFeed is due to remain intact until Zuckerberg and the Facebook team decide upon its future but it’s certain Twitter will need to step up its game if it still wants to become the first website with a billion active users.
As for MySpace, it seems that the dust trail it is left in grows ever longer, with Rupert Murdoch regretting his purchase perhaps a little more.
What is certain is that Facebook will see some increase on its already massive 250 million members and that things are going to start hotting up in the world of online social networking.
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The demise of Myspace is a real shame. I’ve always thought it had a certain level of democracy that was missing from Facebook et al. Yes, it’s down-and-dirty..Yes, it’s got some goodawful html, but there’s still something wonderfully inclusive about it